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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond Page #5
- You told them
I bought you clothes.
I want to know why you told them
- Well, why did you, Fisher?
- Because I...
I felt sorry for you.
- Oh?
- And because
you're a gentleman,
grandson of a governor
of this state.
And you dress like a-
like a field hand.
- Well, not so much
of a gentleman
that you wouldn't suspect me
of stealing.
Stand up.
Or are you too drunk too?
- I had some liquor
in the kitchen
when they were searching
my clothes
for your teardrop diamond.
- Are you gonna drink
like your father?
Jimmy, don't-don't walk away
when I'm talking to you.
- What do you want, Fisher?
You say you found your diamond.
- I did not say
that I found it.
Julie said that I did.
I agreed to let her say it
so there'd be no more talk.
- Hey!
Turn off that Victrola!
I have an important announcement
to make,
a very important announcement.
Fisher Willow did not find
her diamond,
never said she found it,
had Julie say it for her.
Jimmy, you misunderstood.
I was there when she found it.
- Under the circumstances,
I think I'd like to go home.
I- I don't feel well.
I- I don't want to stay
and spoil the party.
- Fisher, stay.
Look, it's all forgotten now.
I'm gonna get Mama to bed
so we can play Post Office.
- Play what?
- Your mama is guarding
that punch bowl like a hawk.
Nobody's had a chance
to spike it,
so the boys are drinking
straight moonshine in the yard.
- I'll get Eddie Peacock
to dance your mama
away from the bowl.
- Tommy, will you dance
with Fisher?
She's decorating the wall.
- She'll decorate walls
all her life.
- Not the walls
at this party.
- Walls in Memphis?
- No, much, much further
than Memphis.
- Aw.
- Oh, Fisher.
- I dare you
to go up and ask her
if she'd like a good lay.
- All right.
- Pull her back
in the bushes.
- Mama's gone upstairs.
- Oh, well, good for Mama.
I'll get the cards.
Are they gonna play
some kind of kids' game?
- Haven't you ever played
Post Office?
- Why, no.
- It's a kissing game.
- Oh.
You mean we're all gonna kiss
each other like-
like New Year's Eve?
- No, it's more private.
- I don't understand
this game.
- Just watch.
You'll catch on.
- Hey.
- Julie, I don't know
what's going on.
- Oh, we're dealing the cards
for Post Office.
Here, take this.
And keep it out of sight.
It's the ace of spades.
It's the highest card
in the deck,
which means that you
are the postman
and you are gonna send Jimmy
a letter.
- Julie, really,
isn't this sort of silly?
- Well, no more than life is.
Turn that record off.
- Whoops.
- What record was that
you broke, Hank Ellis, you fool?
- Eh, it's just some old one.
Blues.
That is a classic.
- Julie, a classic
is something by Beethoven
or Brahms-
- Naturally,
And I do not retract
my statement
that you are a fool.
Now, has everybody got cards?
- We don't have any cards,
Julie.
- Take 'em.
Draw a card each.
Whoever turned that lamp off
better turn it back on.
- Shine on
Shine on, harvest moon
Up in the sky
I ain't had no lovin'
Since January, February
June and July
Snow time
Ain't no time to stay
"Warning:
Contains"and could be habit-forming.
One or two teaspoons
at bedtime. "
My heavens, Fisher, what are you
doing with that bottle?
- Oh, I-I noticed it in the-
What is it?
- It's one of Aunt Addie's
fake remedies with opium in it.
- It had rather
a nice bitter taste.
- Oh, Fisher,
you took some of it?
Let me put some ice
on your forehead at once.
You stay right here.
- Well, Fisher...
We thought you'd be gone.
- I hope you'll all excuse
my fit of nerves.
I've spent some time
And you never completely...
return.
- Oh, there you are, Fisher.
Mama has finally
gone to sleep.
So who has the highest card?
- Jimmy has an ace.
- Of what, spades?
- No, hearts.
- Well, that can only be beaten
by the ace of spades.
Has anybody got
the ace of spades?
Anybody?
Well, Jimmy,
you're the postman.
Go out to the post office
on the veranda
Remember, the time limit
is three minutes.
Be smart.
Whoa!
- Will you hush
so I can hear
who the letter
- I have a letter
for miss Vinnie McCorkle.
- For me?
- Remember, three minutes.
That is the strict time limit.
Who's got a watch?
- May I supply the music
on the piano?
- Your eyelashes,
I feel them on my cheek.
- We've only got
three minutes.
- According
to Julie's kissing game.
Kissing is where I start.
Follow me.
Hurry.
- Many men.
Of course, some were
just kids with pimples,
but others who were
responsible men with positions
have said to me,
"I love you, Vinnie. "
But only one has ever said,
"Will you marry me, Vinnie?"
- And you turned down
the proposal
from the responsible man?
- Yes.
He had a position,
a good one,
as an officer
- You turned him down?
- It was just-
Well, I couldn't
consider marriage
with a man
I wasn't attracted to...
physically, Jimmy.
Like-like back
in the car there,
it took my breath away.
It did.
Didn't you hear me
gasping for breath?
- Yeah, so was I.
- Not as loud as me.
I don't want to keep
any secrets from you, Jimmy.
None.
I have a-
Mm.
Something happened tonight.
And I want to tell you
about it.
I want to show it to you.
Follow me, quick.
- Jimmy! Vinnie!
- What you digging for,
Vinnie?
Oh, my God.
I wonder if it was here.
I counted down five bushes.
This is-
oh, oh, this the fourth.
It's the next one.
Here
Here it is.
- What?
- Release. Release.
Release.
- God, is that the-
- Shh, don't say it.
This is our secret now.
- Vinnie, you can't be serious,
are you?
- Of course I'm serious.
That's worth $5,000.
- And I know
where the other one is.
I saw Fisher take it off
in Aunt Addie's bedroom
and put it beside the clock
on the mantel.
I'm going up there
and get it too.
$10,000.
It's a fortune.
Why, a pretty girl
with a fortune
is more than just
sexually desirable.
might accept as a wife.
- You must have gone crazy.
- To love you.
To want you.
To run away with you anywhere
for life.
- Vinnie.
This is all wrong.
This is a terrible mistake.
think about honesty.
- A girl who works
at the cosmetic counter
of Liggett's Drug Store
on a side street in Memphis
and honesty
standing between her
and release,
to life and-
and to love.
- All I can say is...
give it back to her.
- Not on your life, boy.
Finders are keepers
and losers are weepers,
if she's human enough to weep.
Go back in the parlor.
I'm gonna go upstairs
and get the other one.
- Vinnie-no, Vinnie,
I'm poor.
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